diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
index b26b82eb598..5b6fcf026f4 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -682,6 +682,9 @@ RUN --mount=type=bind,from=build,src=/workspace/dist,target=/vllm-workspace/dist
         --extra-index-url ${PYTORCH_CUDA_INDEX_BASE_URL}/cu$(echo $CUDA_VERSION | cut -d. -f1,2 | tr -d '.'); \
     fi
 
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
+    uv pip install --system "transformers==5.4.0"
+
 RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
 . /etc/environment && \
 uv pip list